The Portland daily press., 1887-04-01
TO BE RULED BY WOMEN.
One Kansas City Where a Man Is OF
no Account.
A Proposition that Puts Massachu-
sets RumseIIers In a Panic.
The Castle Garden Wedding RIne-A
Gracious Queen.

The citizens Of Stockton, Kansas, purpose
to give the new municipal female suffrage
law Of that State fair trial On the fullest
scale. All the men have stepped aside and
city ticket composed entirely Of women Is 10
be elected without opposition. There Is to
be woman mayor, women for eouneilmen.
in short the whole town Is TO be run by won-
en-. Stockton has lately voted TO build water
works, and women will have the entire
handling Of the matter, letting of contracts
and seeing that they are faithfully executed.
The city Is on theCentral Branch Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific. and the new city government
will have an opportunity to grapple with the
railroad question among other things. How
they may attend TO these great and c0mpl-
Gated duties Is a matter Of much diverse
comment among the newspapers Of the cOun-
try, but In one opinion the critics all agree
that the liquor laws will be enforced more
strictly in Stockton than In any other citv In
the United States.
OF bill now pending In the Massachusetts,
Legislature TO extend the right Of suffrage TO
women on the question Of "license" or emo
license as well as on the school question,
the Boston Transcript speaks as follows:
The proposition TO permit woman suffrage
on the question Of licensing will, II success
tul, produce greater results than will follow
AARhA aA1 dttlUu tudb LUtItDN MAY De taken
ON the matter Of rumselling. If women vote
on so Important point as licensing, why
should they not exercise the right OF suffrage
on other matters Of more or like Importance?
The traffiekers In ardent spirits, somehow
or other, fear the effect Of woman suffrage. h
applied to their business, and that fear NAV
nave considerable influence, politically. In
case women are granted the partial right to
the ballot, as now proposed"
A New York girl, one Of the class Of work.
Nuh haa harA luk Ia. -. -.
tracted so much attention OF late gives this
description Of the life Of a shop girl and Of
an enterprise that has brought greater com
Tort 70 seven hundred Of her sisters by Civ
ing them home: There are three Of US,
she says. Father left US $500 apiece and
beyond that we had each two hands. We
had no trade, and we drifted into the shops.
Of course. ! earned 50 a week and the others
had 81 week - the start, and we lived like
s some thousands m0<s That means q top
bread and tea. We had 70 have car fare, we
had to have clothes. / was sllr-e. as soon as
the idea came to me, that II eocnld once
hnd the right sort OF house and manaken.she
housekeeping as carefully as they do baek III
the country, l could cOntrive a decent sort M :
nome living for good many women at rates
that shop girls can afford to pay. was be-
hind the handkerchief counter, and one Of
my sisters sold stockings and the other but
tons In one OF the biggest New York stores
There were about 200 women about the es-
tablishment, and we talked the matter IN
mornings and nights with every one we
knew. 1t was a woman Of whom we hired
the place, and she put the figures
as low as she could afford. The girls were
eager to come, and most of them had wOm-
ans nicknacks Of one sort or another IL
was because II felt like a home that we did
not fail There were fifty Of us the day the
house opened. To have y house to them
selves where they could do as they pleased,
was luxury that went 10 their heads liz
was camping-Out frOlic, and picnics were
rare enough with them all. | put the board
four weeks balance sheet put aside the
last thought Of disaster to my plan II
would work; 1t has worked"
Queen Margherita Of Italy, has won the
qndying loyalty Of the newspaper men Of
Italy. The reporters who were puzzling
over the toilets at recent court ball at Rome
were taken In tow by King Humbert, TO
whom they frankly stated their iixautI- -nffft--
trodueed them TO the Queen, with the sug-
gestion that she should coach them. She
aid this with a readiness and winning grace
that completely captlvated the quilldrivers,
debating to them description of the hand
soonest dresses. She wound up with the in
junction not to forget her necklace Of pearls,
teIest your lady readers"
The marriage Of Japanese student to an
American girl at the Michigan University
has caused furore in Ann Arbor, where Il
TOOK place. The names Of the contracting
parties are June X. Kimura Of Achi Ken,
Japan, and Mary NJ. Gallagher until recently
OF East Saginaw, and the ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. w. II. Ryder of the Congre-
gational church. The groom Is brightfaced,
Intelligent Japanese, under medium size,
fluent English speaker and son Of former
royal physician. The bride visited Ann Ar
Dor with a relative, who was being treated
at the hospital where she met Kimura. XII
mura has been six years In this country, win
be graduated In June and will then return to
Japan with his bride.
There IS finger ring at Castle Garden,
New York, which has served at 354 weddings
NOT All the couples who are married there
are provided with this article so essential In
the Catholic marriage service, and t0 prevent
vexati0us delays an official purchased a
property" ring, which Is made to do duty
during the service and Is then retained for
the next rIngless couple.